diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollector.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollector.php
index 7265bab13bb01..6aa215f56dbec 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollector.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollector.php
@@ -193,9 +193,15 @@ private function getCurlCommand(array $trace): ?string
         $dataArg = [];
 
         if ($json = $trace['options']['json'] ?? null) {
-            $dataArg[] = '--data '.escapeshellarg(self::jsonEncode($json));
+            if (!$this->argMaxLengthIsSafe($payload = self::jsonEncode($json))) {
+                return null;
+            }
+            $dataArg[] = '--data '.escapeshellarg($payload);
         } elseif ($body = $trace['options']['body'] ?? null) {
             if (\is_string($body)) {
+                if (!$this->argMaxLengthIsSafe($body)) {
+                    return null;
+                }
                 try {
                     $dataArg[] = '--data '.escapeshellarg($body);
                 } catch (\ValueError) {
@@ -204,7 +210,10 @@ private function getCurlCommand(array $trace): ?string
             } elseif (\is_array($body)) {
                 $body = explode('&', self::normalizeBody($body));
                 foreach ($body as $value) {
-                    $dataArg[] = '--data '.escapeshellarg(urldecode($value));
+                    if (!$this->argMaxLengthIsSafe($payload = urldecode($value))) {
+                        return null;
+                    }
+                    $dataArg[] = '--data '.escapeshellarg($payload);
                 }
             } else {
                 return null;
@@ -240,4 +249,14 @@ private function getCurlCommand(array $trace): ?string
 
         return implode(" \\\n  ", $command);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Let's be defensive : we authorize only size of 8kio on Windows for escapeshellarg() argument to avoid a fatal error
+     *
+     * @see https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/9458f5f2c8a8e3d6c65cc181747a5a75654b7c6e/ext/standard/exec.c#L397
+     */
+    private function argMaxLengthIsSafe(string $payload): bool
+    {
+        return \strlen($payload) < ('\\' === \DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ? 8100 : 256000);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollectorTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollectorTest.php
index 18b08473aa2f2..3cb5278bbd5b4 100755
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollectorTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/DataCollector/HttpClientDataCollectorTest.php
@@ -417,6 +417,28 @@ public function testItDoesNotGeneratesCurlCommandsForNotEncodableBody()
         self::assertNull($curlCommand);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @requires extension openssl
+     */
+    public function testItDoesNotGeneratesCurlCommandsForTooBigData()
+    {
+        $sut = new HttpClientDataCollector();
+        $sut->registerClient('http_client', $this->httpClientThatHasTracedRequests([
+            [
+                'method' => 'POST',
+                'url' => 'http://localhost:8057/json',
+                'options' => [
+                    'body' => str_repeat('1', 257000),
+                ],
+            ],
+        ]));
+        $sut->collect(new Request(), new Response());
+        $collectedData = $sut->getClients();
+        self::assertCount(1, $collectedData['http_client']['traces']);
+        $curlCommand = $collectedData['http_client']['traces'][0]['curlCommand'];
+        self::assertNull($curlCommand);
+    }
+
     private function httpClientThatHasTracedRequests($tracedRequests): TraceableHttpClient
     {
         $httpClient = new TraceableHttpClient(new NativeHttpClient());